A New Favorite–Adam Robinson
Okay I found this guy’s book of poems– Adam Robison and Other Poems poems by Adam Robinson– in Marfa (no, I didn’t get the spelling wrong here) and as Cindy will tell you, I have not yet stopped laughing about things found in it. Here’s one with a sound that kills me:
Steve Reich Hears a Pentecostal Preacher
it’s gonna rain hew
it’s gonna rain hew
it’s gonna rain hew
it’s gonna rain hew
it’s gon rain hew
it’s gon rain hew
it’s gon rain hew
it’s gon rain hew
it’s gon fwip
hitsit’s gon fwip
hitsit’s gon fwip
it’s gon fwip
it’s gon hitsfwip
it’s it’s heep
if heep it’s heep
if heep it’s rain
heeit’s rain heeit’s rain
rain h rain h rain h raib
sgon! ifraib sgon! ifraig sgon!
raigsgon sgon sgon rai
sgon r sgon ra sgon r sgon rai
it’s g fwip
it’s g fwip
ifsy g fwip
he rain
he rain fwip
herain
herain
Not all of the poems are like this one, but risk abounds throughout. He’s a person who realizes that sometimes the only way to make a poem is to kick the shit out of it, and then sort of prop it up there and step away.
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An Iranian woman blinded and disfigured by a man who threw acid into her face stood above her attacker Sunday in a hospital operating room as a doctor was about to put several drops of acid in one of his eyes in court-ordered retribution.
The man waited on his knees and wept.
“What do you want to do now?” the doctor asked the 34-year-old woman, whose own face was severely disfigured in the 2004 attack.
“I forgave him, I forgave him,” she responded, asking the doctor to spare him at the last minute in a dramatic scene broadcast on Iran’s state television.
tweet of the day
headline of the day
Drunk father lets 8-year-old son drive pickup
A day in the life.
Adam Brody and Keith David prepare a scene for Double or Nothing. Wardrobe and Production Design by yours truly.
(Not sure of the photo credit, will add when I find out.)
Fishes That Could Be Dead Leaves (For Daryl)
A Wall that Could Be a Road
Milton Glaser on the fear of failure
(via Ali Douglass)
from the spam
I think you could make a really creepy movie out of the dollhouse idea.
quote out of context
“I congratulate them for doing what’s right and removing the two books,” said Scroggins, who didn’t attend the board meeting. “It’s unfortunate they chose to keep the other book.”
when parents text
It’s funny to begin to see more of myself in the parents’ texts, but I suppose that is inevitable.
Update: I would have used an image of this if it had been there when I posted.
(via @fchimero)
Ahem
(thanks, Autumn)
from the comments
The ability to “maintain” collapsed in on us.
Never fear, Pamela. God is with you too in this coming time.
I am running an email I received from an Atlas reader in Norway. It is devastating in its matter-of-factness.
Yes, devastating.
(via @mattyglesias)
from the moderated comments
What the fuck is this autotune shit? The clip was better before some asshole shit all over it.
dear clusterflock
Best voice over voice.
Dear Clusterflock…
Best Stevie Wonder song.
logo out of context
Guns of Icarus
I wrote a short piece on a neglected indie game, Guns of Icarus, for The Idler:
If you are anything like me, you got sick of steampunk around the same time you stopped reading Boing Boing. My initial delight with steampunk is almost certainly connected to my love of good sci-fi and fantasy. The connection between magic and technology is nearly essential for the genre, if only for two reasons:
1. My techno-scientific geek brain knows that the devices like airships couldn’t work without some sort of alchemy.
2. The technology often is so advanced, despite its analog bent, that Clarke’s third law applies.*But after hundreds of cosplay pictures and derivative movies, comics, and video games, the novelty began to wear. Yet one day, about a year ago during a quiet afternoon of unemployment, I found myself playing a game described thusly, “In an apocalyptic steampunk future, you are a privateer ferrying goods across treacherous airspace. Protect your airship and yourself from an onslaught of pirates, and safely reach your destination to reap the rewards.”
quote out of context
The tension, as I see it, is that if free will is a myth then it’s not clear why we should have an ethical goal of changing people as little as possible.
a fashion shoot with the Lytro camera
Three weeks ago I read an article on mashable.com about a revolutionary new camera called the LYTRO that requires no focusing whatsoever. In fact, believe it or not, all focusing can be done after the picture is taken.
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[T]his is the first EVER fashion shoot with the Lytro camera.
A) Be sure to click through to the original article for more information and other pictures. B) If you haven’t already, click anywhere in the image above to change the focus. C) Previously on clusterflock.
Google’s list of bad words
I had to look some of these up.
from the comments
Today is my birthday and we are in Marfa! As it has every birthday of my life, it rained this morning. No matter where I am, it rains. Marfa is parched (recovering from 10 rainless months), so it is lovely to see everything getting a drink. I will refrain from taking the credit, but of course, we all know better. To quote Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, “I make the weather!”
Abner Dean
From what I can see, everything Abner does is gold. (via Austin Kleon)
quote out of context
The reason for Caan’s departure from the show is unconfirmed but it may have something to do with his attempt to buy a Pakistani flood victim’s baby for £725 while making a charity film.
